Panamanian president Ricardo Martinelli offered asylum to Ecuadoran publisher Carlos Pérez Barriga, one of the owners of the El Universo newspaper. Last week Pérez was sentenced to three years in prison and 26m GBP in fines for defaming Ecuadoran...
The Paris and Cologne offices of a Turkish newspaper were attacked by supporters of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) last week. Zaman newspaper says that a group of nearly 15 masked PKK supporters entered its Paris office on 15...
Blogger and free speech activist Razan Ghazzawi was released on Saturday along with her female colleagues, after being arrested and detained last Thursday following a raid on the Syrian Center for Media and Freedom of Expression in Damascus....
Bahrain announced the deportation of four foreign activists for "taking part in illegal demonstrations" on 18 February, bringing the number of those expelled over the past week to 12. The official BNA news agency reported on Friday that the four...
A Burmese monk jailed for his involvement in 2007 protests faces further charges for breaking both the law and the Buddhist monks' code of conduct. Shin Gambira, who was released from prison in a January amnesty, has been accused of rejoining the...
The trial of the web master of a Thai news website resumed last week after a long interruption.Chiranuch Premchaiporn, web master of Prachatai news website, faces a possible 20 year prison sentence for not removing certain user comments from her...
Singapore's prime minister has demanded an apology from a political website, following allegedly defamatory posts. In a letter to the editors of website TR Emeritus, the lawyer of Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong requested the apology, after posts...
Three Tunisian journalists have been arrested on charges of offending public morality following the publication of a nude photograph. The Attounissia newspaper printed a photograph of Real-Madrid footballer Sami Khedira covering the breasts of his...
Google has urged the Australian federal government to reject an interim independent report recommending the country's internet be regulated in a similar manner to television, arguing it would be unclear how regulation online could be imposed...
Russia's head of Federal Migration has said that the decision to expel prominent French journalist and author Anne Nivat earlier this week was "groundlessly harsh", and that she will be allowed to return. Nivat was expelled from the country on 13...